Sonia Orchard

Sonia Orchard is an award-winning author of four books, freelance writer and the founder and director of the Mountain Festival, a writers festival in Macedon Ranges, Victoria. Sonia’s latest book Groomed: A memoir about abuse, the search for justice and how we fail to keep our children safe is a mixture of memoir and research and details her journey through the Victorian justice system as a complainant in a historical sexual abuse case, while raising three teenage girls. It was published in February 2025 and has already received extensive media coverage and praise from both experts and victim survivors. Clare Wright OAM writes that “Groomed is THE book for our times”.